Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-03-23
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FERRY, NO., March GA lively OLD couple OF
hais county are "Uncle" Johnnie spencer and
vile. tncie Johnnie was born in Butler county,
Ohlo, thirty-flve miles from the city of Cfpcin-
SunhaL IN 1910. and his wife, Aunt Ollie, was
oorn IN bourbon county, kentucky, In the same
eI. Inere being only q few months dinernce
1 9sSN theiT agcS They came % Missouri In
49,. "hen they landed at Hannibal there were
ehiy one OF two stores and a warehouse. and on
lu' EIHuhd which r. now the city park reared
IN ca log cabin used a. q butcher shop on a small
scale. He never wears glasses, and can neither
rcaa nor write hts own name; but four wears AGO
Your correspondent saw him stand nat-footed and
turn complete snmersault and never touch his
acres, and his sged heipmsle @aissyo town. a dis
lance OF one mile, and carries her produce making
trip once week hen the weather Is fair She
also does her own Homework and tends her gar
their lives and hence know but little Of the doings
OF the outside world. Aunt Ollie did not even
s I0n 9nl ,n, asey 'hst Cleveland was married
other than the democratic ticket has attended
every election, and takes his '.oh be joyfuls
straight
The King Of the Msonshtneru CAPTURED.
RALEIGH, n. C., March 22-For months revenue
oflicers have been In pursuit OF desperate moon.
sinners In orange and Durham counties Their
labor al last has been rewarded Day before YES
terday they captured ID. III. Holmes. an extensive
maker OF contraband whisky. They secured a SIN
Capt jerks, known far aud near as the king Of the
moonshiners- He was very daring operator and
had fve distilleries In places Three
az these were discovered
Satisfied With His Death Sentence.
TExARKASA. ARK, March 23-Jim Jones. coll
ored, was sentenced In the district court yester-
day TO be hanged on May is. Jones was indicted
for the killing OF a negro named Cole Hicks last
september he was found guilty OF murder and the
case was appealed, but the lower court was sus-
nouncing the sentence OF DEATH he added by way
OF consolation: 1T is possible. however for your
lawyers 70 intervene and get the death sentence
committed TO Imprisonment for life"
To this the doomed man, IN an Indifferent ton0
OF voice replied: ''There's no use, judge, jun lee
her CO."
A Church Blown Up with Dynamite,
FREpoNIA, KAN, March 23-The Dunkard church
al Buffalo, Kan. twenty miles north from hero.
was blown TO pieces by what is supposed TO be
dynamite at $50 last night. This was commo-
dious frame building, and the only church In the
town. The cause for this rash act Is understood
TO be bitter feeling upon the temperance ques-
ton.
Cut His Young wife's Jhroas.
GATEsvuLE, TEX, March c3-Folsom Hester,
aged sixty-eight years. and hts young wife did not
agree. MIS- Hester recently len her husband and
a safe distance. His wife on Monday went 20 his
house 70 get her personal property, when he seized
her and with large knife cut Der throat
Napoleon Bonaparsc's Frighsssl Ten-
pers
Paris Letter to London Telegraph
In the second and last installment OF his remarE.
able essay on Napoleon Bonaparte, which appears
In the current number OF the Rerue dies DeuE
Mondes, M. Taine cites several curious anecdotes
in proof OF the impulsye ana electric character OF
the conQueror. The Malatestas and Borgias OF the
country, whence came the ancestors OF the great
Corsican, were not more sudden and vehement In
their emotions and desires. With Napoleon no idea
was simply speculative. IL needed instantaneous
realization, and his thought, as was said by De
Pradt, became passion az IL grew. On one occa-
with Voney, he gave the senator o kick IN the
stomach which sent him 10 bed for a week. Whsn
suddenly surprised by Josephine at Sc. Cloud with
lady he dashed after his wife, who had only time
TO escape, and In the evening showed his anger by
breaking the furniture near his hands. On another
occasion, before the empire, he treated Berther In
a sctirvy manner In the presence of a room full oe
people. Talleyrand, in his quzzical way, told Be-.
thier that his master was thinking OF proclaiming
himself king, whereupon the lll-advised court1ee
went over TO compliment the nrst consul. Napo-
Icons eyes darted fury at the word king and putt
ting his INST under the chin OF the unlucky bers
thier, he pushed him towards the wall saying,
'ldiot, who sent you here 70 raise my bile7n He
swore and stamped while debating 70 his secre.
taries, and In dressing himself often hung his
clothes In the IRE II they did not suit him. In
short, M. Taine's Interesting notice q q striking
proof OF st. Augustfne's saying that there "a no
great genius without an admixture Of madness N
his composition.